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Book Review: Dead Meat by Ankush Saikia

Intense, pacifying and thrilling... These words are enough to describe Ankush Saikia's new noir thriller cum detective novel Dead Meat. The author who hails fromnortheastern part of India is back again, that is with a bang. His latest novel Dead Meat is about money, greed, brutality andhumanmind. it is a fast pacing novel which grips your mind in no time.

The story began with a body being burnt in a tandoor (Oh God!! How I will have tandoor itemsnow!!! :0) and almost immediately found by police. The murder is brutal and policeisleft without a clue. Mean while our hero (I will prefer the term anti-hero here) is given a case of findingan youngaccountant by an top industrialist. While investigating the case, Arjun Arora (who is described as a hard pitched man with a dark past and broken marriage)is caught in a intrigued web. One after another character is revealed with a dark intention. Here is the industrialist's partner, a minister's nephew, the dead accountant's friends, a model and the list goes on. How he freed himself from that web and how he solved the case form the story of the novel.

It is evident from the novel thatMrSaikia has doneintensivestudy on crime scenes and cases before writing the novel. All the crime scenes are perfectly described and you can actually imagine how the crime has happened. Sometimes, the description will send a shiver down your spine. Yes, this book is so well described. In fact, all the scenes are so detailed that in some pages you can even smell the aroma of mutton curry :) Or you can actually roam withMrArora in the streets of Delhi.

But as the novel is so intense and full of various characters, you can lose the grip momentarily. But fear not fellow readers!! Our author has left no table unturned to keep you engaged with the book. So, if you can not stop yourself munching on the book on the first go till its half, do not blame yourself.

The cover is enough to attract you and the price is also reasonable. Over all, the book is worthy of reading even if you are nota ardentfan of crime novels.

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